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Indexing the Earth Mover's Distance Using Normal Distributions.

Thu, 12/01/2011 - 15:01 — SomNambul
Authors: Ambuj K. Singh, Brian E. Ruttenberg
Subjects: Databases
link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.7168
Abstract

Querying uncertain data sets (represented as probability distributions)
presents many challenges due to the large amount of data involved and the
difficulties comparing uncertainty between distributions. The Earth Mover's
Distance (EMD) has increasingly been employed to compare uncertain data due to
its ability to effectively capture the differences between two distributions.
Computing the EMD entails finding a solution to the transportation problem,
which is computationally intensive. In this paper, we propose a new lower bound
to the EMD and an index structure to significantly improve the performance of
EMD based K-nearest neighbor (K-NN) queries on uncertain databases. We propose
a new lower bound to the EMD that approximates the EMD on a projection vector.
Each distribution is projected onto a vector and approximated by a normal
distribution, as well as an accompanying error term. We then represent each
normal as a point in a Hough transformed space. We then use the concept of
stochastic dominance to implement an efficient index structure in the
transformed space. We show that our method significantly decreases K-NN query
time on uncertain databases. The index structure also scales well with database
cardinality. It is well suited for heterogeneous data sets, helping to keep EMD
based queries tractable as uncertain data sets become larger and more complex.

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